Masterworks of early 20th-century literature

Part 1: Lecture 1. Road map: modernism and moral ambiguity

lecture 2. How to read fiction: Joyce's "An encounter"

lecture 3. Defining modernism: Monet's cathedral

lecture 4. Defining modernism: beyond Impressionism

lecture 5. The man who would be king: imperial fools

lecture 6. Heart of darkness: Europe's Kurtz

lecture 7. Heart of darkness: the drama of the telling

lecture 8. The shadow-line: unheroic heroes

lecture 9. The good soldier: the limits of irony

lecture 10. The good soldier: killed by kindness

lecture 11. Lawrence (and Joyce): sex in modern fiction

lecture 12. Horse dealer's daughter: a shimmer within.